Former longtime UFC fighter Diego Sanchez is struggling with serious health complications from COVID-19. On late Thursday night and the early morning of Friday, Sanchez posted to social media that he has been hospitalized with pneumonia and blood clots as a result of his battle with COVID-19. View this post
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It’s no secret that BJ Penn’s base martial art was jiu-jitsu. He used that jiu-jitsu, coupled with excellent boxing and superb takedown defense, to win UTC titles as a lightweight and a welterweight. Now, Penn is weighing in on why another former lightweight champion — Khabib Nurmagomedov — never attempted
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Following YouTube star Jake Paul’s first-round knockout of Ben Askren over the weekend, numerous MMA fighters active and retired have publicly called for a fight with Paul. Former two-division UFC champion and IBJJF black belt world champion BJ Penn has added his name to that list. In a tweet from
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Former UFC champion and hall of famer BJ Penn has been arrested and is under investigation for driving under the influence. Details of Penn’s arrest and investigation were reported by ESPN. Per a Hawaii Police Department spokesperson, Penn was arrested on the afternoon of January 23 following reports of reckless
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It’s a question that’s almost as old as sport itself and definitely a hell of a lot older than BJJ, but to what extent is “being a role model” actually important? Our sport isn’t unique in facing this question more and more often as we speed through the 21st century,
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While many of us remember BJ Penn as being the the man who won both the UFC Lightweight and Welterweight titles, he has had a pretty rough go of it lately. First he lost a Unanimous Decision to Clay Guida at UFC 237 that took him to a UFC record
Read moreFrankie Edgar and BJ Penn used to be rivals vying for the right to be crowned UFC Lightweight Champion but in a recent appearance Edgar made on The Joe Rogan Experience (JRE), he revealed not only that the two are now friends, but also gave his thoughts on BJ Penn’s
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Early today, TMZ broke the news (with video) that BJ Penn had been involved in a serious altercation outside a bar in his native Hawaii. Now, new video has surfaced showing a separate fight with the same person, which apparently happened earlier in the evening. In the video, BJ is
Read moreEDIT: We’ve posted a new article with a new video that has emerged showing BJ knocked out in a separate altercation, earlier in the evening. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu world champion and UFC hall of famer BJ Penn was involved in yet another brawl in Hawaii, mounting a man and raining
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Tex Johnson. BJ Penn. Ralph Gracie. These are just three of the more recent grapplers and fighters to be caught up in a scandal of some sort. Of course everyone who has been in the BJJ community for a time knows about the accusations against Lloyd Irvin. The accusations vary,
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